I follow the curve around the Parliament Building with its form of a squatting Victorian dowager, darkish pink, skirts huffed out, stolid.

Margaret Atwood -- Cat’s Eye

Jamie, possibly the least clumsy person I had ever seen in my life, kept his head down and ate stolidly through the diatribe, though his cheeks flushed hotly.

Diana Gabaldon -- Outlander

They were constitutionally different, it was obvious now, Kit having more of Alan’s stolidity — Ruby would call it bourgeois — but in any case Kit was tired of the spirals, was exhausted by the deep cleaning Ruby tried to do every time they talked.

Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King

After I’d eaten, stolidly, I gathered the week’s accumulation of newspapers on and around my bed and rolled them up and put them in the trash basket; retrieved from the cupboard my bleach-rotted shirt and—after checking to see the bag was tied tight—slipped it into another bag from the Asian market (leaving it open, for carrying ease, also in case I happened to spot a helpful brick).

Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch

Jurgis took it stolidly—he had made up his mind to it by this time.

Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

He kept his soldiers moving, darting from star to star, wallsliding to get behind and above the stolid Salamanders.

Orson Scott Card -- Ender’s Game

Men are beyond fear, working stolidly and patiently, with minds made up to worst.

Bram Stoker -- Dracula

Streams flowed down the mountains from stolid glaciers and glistening snowpacks.

Christopher Paolini -- Eragon

Was it possible that this stolidly respectable person was of the same blood as one of the most notorious criminals in the country?

Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles

The saloonkeeper looked at him with a flat, heavy glance, a glance that showed full consciousness of agony, of injustice—and a stolid, bovine indifference.

Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

My shyness and gaucherie became worse, too, making me stolid and dumb when people came to the house.

Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca

The stolidity of the German woman underwent a sudden change.

Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express

And the poor creature dropped on his knees before the stolid murderer, and clasped his appealing hands.

Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

MRS. PEARCE [stolidly] That’s what I mean, sir.

George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion

It was a heavy, solid construction designed for stolid floating, not for navigating, though I suppose that if we had been thirty-two to row we could have made some headway.

Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

Grey Beaver looked on stolidly while the white man wielded the whip.

Jack London -- White Fang

I’m stolid.

Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes

He was a big, fat, stolid youth of twenty, with a round, expressionless face, and a painful lack of conversational gifts.

Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables

Havermeyer’s stolid, dull face furrowed with consternation.

Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

Above them was the ceiling, and it was the ceiling Laila was drawn to, the dark markings of mold spreading across it like ink on a dress, the crack in the plaster that was a stolid smile or a frown, depending on which end of the room you looked at it from.

Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

For two hours, Roran watched the opposing sides face each other-the agitated lanterns milling helplessly against the stolid torches.

Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

To Ethan there was something vaguely ominous in this stolid rejection of free food and warmth, and he wondered what had happened on the drive to nerve Jotham to such stoicism.

Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome

I stood beneath his photograph with my brief case in hand and smiled triumphantly into his stolid black peasant’s face.

Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man

Behind George, Will grew along, dumpy and stolid.

John Steinbeck -- East of Eden

She spent so much time crouching in the cellar that the girls would have fared badly but for Mrs. Meade’s stolid old Betsy.

Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

There was a kind of faint convulsion in the stolid face.

Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

The accused man sat so rigorously in his chair, so unmovable and stolid.

David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars

The gentleman from Tellson’s had nothing left for it but to empty his glass with an air of stolid desperation, settle his odd little flaxen wig at the ears, and follow the waiter to Miss Manette’s apartment.

Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities

"Well," the orator began again stolidly and with even increased dignity, after waiting for the laughter in the room to subside.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

Surprising how much like a small, begging child she makes me feel, simply by her scowl, her stolidity; how importunate and whiny.

Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid’s Tale

Puli, seemingly unaware, continued eating stolidly.

Kamala Markandaya -- Nectar in a Sieve

And old Jemima, stolid in temper and solid in bulk, kept up a long and subdued grumble, while she stirred the stock-pot methodically over the fire.

Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel

Bigger sat stolidly, trying not to let the crowd detect any fear in him.